Completely untrustworthy

Cops seem to feel entitled to steal, to plant evidence, and to murder. How many times has bodycam footage exposed their crimes after the fact? 

Even though they aren't usually held accountable to the same degree you or I would be, even when their crimes are indisputable.

It has been demonstrated over and over and over again that cops will lie even when their bodycams are recording.

So why would you ever trust one to be honest without a recording?

I wouldn't. Not ever.

You have to assume that any cop is lying any time he says he did nothing wrong, and any time he accuses someone of anything. Even if he's accusing them of a non-crime such as "resisting arrest" (trying to not be kidnapped) or "assaulting an officer" (fighting off an attacker).

Cops have spent all the credibility they may have once enjoyed. They've made themselves completely untrustworthy by working hard at it for decades. Don't let them play the victim.

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The Weird vs The Gross

As someone who has always been called "weird", including by family members, I'm a little annoyed that the word is being applied to people who haven't truly done the work to earn it. Even if the allegations are true, rather than standard fake news for political points.

"Weird" isn't a word I would have exclusively applied to the Right. Unfortunately, any alternate word I can come up with applies equally to the Left. Just as "weird" does. It's all a matter of perspective.

"Weird" isn't even offensive. Not like the words that really describe statists-- Authoritarian. Nasty. Copsuckers. Thieves. Ignorant. Applicable words spring easily to mind.

The Left may be a little heavier on textbook mental illness, but that depends on the issues you're looking at currently. Neither side has a monopoly on the bad stuff. Copsucking is clearly a mental problem.

But, pretending the Right is now "weird", as declared by the gross Left, this is a terribly strange world we live in.

Who would have ever thought that politics would pit the (pseudo) weird against the gross?
Why can't they all lose and go away? Forever.

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Selling doom or Utopia

I tend to not believe melodramatic people. “We’re all doomed”, or “This wonderful thing is about to happen!”.

This is a common problem with influential preppers. Usually by saying some version of: "The collapse is coming in 90/30/120 days- do this NOW!" Maybe, but don't bet your life on it happening on schedule. Just keep prepping at your best pace so you'll be better off even if the collapse surprises you, or never comes.

Don't think you're doing a service by trying to scare people into acting.

I understand that some people need a deadline to get moving. But once your prediction doesn't come true you risk losing those people forever. Then instead of helping them prepare, you've done the opposite. They aren't going to believe you-- or anyone else-- next time. They may decide prepping is paranoid and pointless.

This is what has made me stop watching videos from most of the preppers I used to watch.

The opposite side of the coin is "Bitcoin will zoom to $1M by the end of the year!" I'd like to believe it, but I don't.

If you are too over-the-top I'm going to laugh at you or ignore you. Even though you might be right. I have my own eyes, and I watch the situation. But, if I ever tell you I know what the future holds, assume I'm wrong.

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Valuable criticism?

"Logical fallacies"... "poorly written"... Those phrases are frequently the best arguments government extremists (especially copsuckers) can manage when I point out their god's flaws.

"Poorly written" is mostly subjective. I've never claimed to be a poet. Whatever floats their boat.

But "logical fallacies"? That can be demonstrated if it's real. And if so, I want to know what I've done.

When I ask for specifics... well, they are really light on those.

What they can do like champions is change the subject and deflect. You'll get the strangest responses at this point. It's like their minds have broken. If they don't flat-out run away, they may think they are making a great point. 

They'll also regularly engage in projection, engaging in exactly the sorts of logical fallacies and mind-reading they accuse you of. When others notice and point this out to them without you having to do so, it is a sweet, sweet feeling. Simply the BEST.

Anyway... I don't really care. Mostly, it's just funny. I understand that if I hang out around those kinds of places, I'm going to hear things like that. It is what it is. Maybe I'll learn something anyway. I do keep offering to let them show me what they're talking about.

(Speaking of valuable criticism, I altered the picture at the beginning of this post [and the blog header] in response to some valid criticism. Can you spot the change?)

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Rights beyond government oversight

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for June 23, 2024)

I often say politics makes people stupid. I've tried to think of a nicer way to say this, but there isn't one.

I don't tie this to any specific political party, but observe it applies to all of them, through the effect they have on everyone who identifies with them.

I'm embarrassed for people who pretend Joe Biden is mentally or physically capable and for those who imagine Donald Trump is a friend to gun owners.

No one has a right to govern another person. There's no way to manufacture such a right out of thin air, with documents, or out of historical justifications dreamed up by fans of political governance. Calling it "a republic" or "democracy" changes nothing. Believing such a thing only proves my point about what politics does to the human mind.

I realize nearly everyone has been brainwashed by a dozen or more years in a compulsory government institution, during the most vulnerable stage of life, to fear life without being treated like property. This doesn't make the fairy tale true.

I don't care who is in which political office; they all seem obsessed with trying to run people's lives and milk us for money. I neither need nor want their governance or guidance, and I don't want to pay for it. What goes wrong inside someone's head to make them fall for this scam?

Politics often makes people a little bit evil, too; justifying things they would recognize as wrong in any other context.

Politics doesn't make our lives better. The only possible exception is when politics is used in defense against some political wrong which wouldn't have happened without politics in the first place. Using politics against politics is absurd, but I understand why many people feel the need to address a political wrong this way instead of simply defying the act until it fades away from disuse.

It's easy to tell when a political wrong has been committed. Does an act of government violate anyone's life, liberty, or property? Does it do this openly, or by trying to sneak in a requirement to get government permission? If so, it's wrong. Rights are beyond government oversight; above legislation, rules, opinions, taxes, or any sort of limit. The only limits on rights are the equal and identical rights of others.

If you need to be governed to act like a good person, you aren't a good person. Politics won't help.

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How should society be governed?

When a philosophy calls for something like “a society governed by laws grounded in reason and compassion, not in fear or prejudice”, I know they mean well. They probably believe they are being ethical and enlightened, but they demonstrate ignorance and rigid thinking, instead.

Society doesn’t need to be governed. Certainly not by legislation.

The only true laws are grounded in natural rights, which are fully compatible with reason and compassion.

If you get this wrong, you’ll go astray every time.

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Reason or wild hallucinations?

I've heard plenty of good, rational reasons to dislike Trump coming from libertarians. Many times, since back in 2016 or before.

I've never heard one from a Democrat. Not once. Not online or from those I know personally.
From them, it's always some imagined danger; a nebulous fear like "he'll steal our democracy", or something really stupid like he'll start putting Americans in concentration camps because of race or some sexual criteria. Emotion based, not rational. Stuff that isn't going to happen because the people wouldn't tolerate it. (Unless the Democrats get their way and disarm everyone so that no one can resist.)

I think this is why they can support people like Harris (or Biden or Hillary Clinton).

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Added steps; reduced help

Taxing robots rather than people. Scott Adams thinks this is a great idea. He has promoted the idea on his livestream several times, suggesting that this is an alternative to income taxes.

The biggest flaw in this is something that government supremacists won't see as a flaw: it would continue to fund the state.

The second problem is, it's still really taxing people. Just taxing the people who own the robots. This is still unethical in the extreme.

Even if robots have jobs, and you steal a percentage of their productivity in the name of taxation to actually support the people of the country, this just adds an unnecessary layer to the process.

Instead of doing the stupid thing, have a robot work and send some of the profits of its productivity directly to someone or some program in need of funding. And do it voluntarily or not at all.

Don't reverse-launder the money by sending it to government, where much of the value will be diverted away from the thing it should be supporting. 

Funneling things through government bureaucratic layers of crookedness and inefficiency means those who need the help get much less of it.

Anything which props up government is part of the problem.

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Their nature always shines through

Recently an excitable copsucker realized he was wrong and decided his best play at that point was to call me a "sovereign citizen". Just because I said cops have no "extra rights" and if they initiate force it is ethical to defend yourself from them. He really didn't like that- not one little bit!

He clutched at superstition and ethereal "permissions" to try to prop up his argument. He tried the "put yourself in their shoes" argument. No one was buying it. He knew he was shooting blanks as each of his justifications was dismissed by everyone in the discussion, so he pulled out the "sovereign citizen" thing and flung it at me. He tried desperately- by calling attention to what he'd called me-- to get others to chime in to agree. It didn't work like he hoped.

I congratulated him on his mind-reading abilities, then I pointed out the silliness of the very concept of "sovereign citizen". He doubled down, expressing his desire to see a video of me, as a sovereign citizen, being cuffed at a traffic stop. Then he ran away. Why are these people almost always so toxic and full of bloodlust? Typical statist.

By then I was laughing at him (on this side of the screen), and could have made fun of him. But I didn't. It wouldn't have accomplished anything positive. I'd made my point.

I'll be honest-- I can probably say things others can't because no one is listening to what I say. At least, most of the time they aren't.

I sometimes take advantage of that freedom. Good, bad, or crazy.

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Collapse the wave function- peek inside the box

Joe Biden is Schrödinger’s “president”; both alive and dead until we collapse the wave function by looking in the coffin. Er, box.

Why won't they let anyone look?

Maybe it's because they already looked and don't like the result.

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What's happening and does it matter?

Does Joe Biden still hold the title of President? Is he even still alive?
Does it really matter?
Did it ever?

Swapping out figureheads matters less than most people want to believe it does.

The "Deep State" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's an observation of how things actually work.

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Thoughts on the Trump shooting

Now that some time has passed, I have additional thoughts I'm willing to express about the assassination attempt on Trump

I'm against it.

Beyond that...

In extraordinary circumstances, assassination is both ethical and necessary. We are not there. Not with any politician currently on the radar. Not Trump, Biden, or even Hillary Clinton (although she's dangerously close).

It's literally part of the reason the Second Amendment exists-- to enable the people to have the upper hand-- the final word-- against government and politicians. It's why it protects literal weapons of war from government rules. It's why the arguments about government having all the nukes and fighter jets are silly and miss the point. Even a flintlock in the right hands can beat all their nukes, but modern weapons would be better for the task. 

In the end, politicians rely on the people tolerating them.

It's also a human right to defend yourself from those archating against you. Or making a credible threat to do so. That is what politicians and candidates are doing by their very existence.

It's still not usually smart, and may not be ethical, to try to assassinate anyone unless you have an actual Hitler-level threat in front of you, which I've never considered Trump to be. He's not unusually dangerous; he's the same as any other politician who may become president again. Which is bad enough.

But... shooting him could actually make him more dangerous by raising him to martyr status, Or removing him so that his supporters rally behind someone else and help that person become what TDS sufferers believed Trump was. That would be really stupid.

I also admit that my religious past made me instantly think of Revelations 13:3. I kept that to myself, until now.

Anyway... It's possible that the nearly successful attempt was just normal governmental incompetence, but it sure looks like something more was at work. Is it just a DEI problem? I doubt it. It looks like someone in government either helped plan the attack or was careful to not prevent it. That may be confirmation bias on my part.

The shooter (or shooters) bears full responsibility. But the media encouraged him to do it. If you doubt that, where have you been for the past 9 or so years. The media has been calling Trump "literally Hitler" and claiming he's an existential threat to America (and "our democracy") this whole time. Mentally unstable, or evil, people don't require much encouragement to act. He got more than he needed.

You or I will never know the whole truth about what happened. Even if the truth slips out, it will be a needle in a haystack of misinformation, and there will be false needles mixed in that are too big and shiny to ignore.

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Injustice for Trump… and for Hunter Biden

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for June 16, 2024)

Last week I pointed out the injustice of Donald Trump's conviction for violating nonsensical, arbitrary legislation. If such legislation even exists. This week it happened to someone else.

Once again someone prominent has been convicted of a victimless "crime" while those in Congress and other government positions continue to victimize Americans with their felonious regime.

Hunter Biden, the President's son, has been convicted of breaking a federal gun rule-- they wish we'd call it a "law"-- which the federal government is explicitly prohibited from making or enforcing. This is tied in with him breaking drug prohibition rules government has no authority to make up or enforce. This is what injustice looks like.

The jury involved in this verdict should be ashamed, as should the jury which convicted Trump. Trump should commit to pardoning Hunter Biden as soon as he's back in office.

I'm no fan of Hunter Biden; I think he is probably a horrible person. Still better than anyone who holds political office, but that's a very low bar. If you can't stand up for the rights of people you dislike, you are worthless in defense of liberty.

I know some people defend government's indefensible gun rules because they don't like guns. Some even try to make the case that these rules must be constitutional because courts have allowed them to stand. Not even close. Government has gotten away with enforcing them for nearly a century now, but they are no more constitutional than drug prohibition or space flight licensing. Less so, since neither drugs nor spacecraft are specifically called out as things government is forbidden to control. Guns are.

"Shall not be infringed" means what it says. Government is not allowed to make up any rule which would interfere with the natural human right to own or carry weapons. Enforcing rules concerning who may or may not purchase weapons, based on self-incrimination on a government form, is a clear violation of rights.

Every one of us, except a few who hold public office, is part of the militia. It's impossible for this militia to be "well regulated"-- practiced until your skill with weapons is effective for the defense of yourself and your community-- when government gets away with making it a crime to do so. Every gun rule is a criminal act by government. Convicting someone of violating one of these counterfeit rules is anti-American. Even if you loathe the person.

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Unearned status

There are two ways to elevate the status of a politician beyond anything they've earned: 

Make them a martyr or call them Hitler. These aren't mutually exclusive, either.

There are also multiple ways to make a politician into a martyr:

Assassination, or pity for the evil old dingbat whose brain stopped working due to factors other than explosive penetration.

Politicians love it when you elevate them beyond their true status as parasites.

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Musing on politics

I disagree with Republicans at least half the time-- which is nearly identical to how often I disagree with Democrats. I only agree with either party when they are correct about something.

However, I can't be the only one noticing that Democrats are usually guilty of doing the things they accuse Republicans of doing (admittedly, sometimes while Republicans are also doing it). And of accusing others of being what they themselves are.

While both parties are fascist socialists, the Democrats are the ones who seem to have more in common with historical Nazis. The tactics and rhetoric they use, in particular. Also, the weaponized mental illness they employ is a big problem for those who are susceptible to such things. And, the bad guys currently in power are always the greater threat than the bad guys who want that power.

It's why I usually just call them all "DemoCRAPublicans".

Public politics is nothing more than a sibling rivalry. Yes, it can turn deadly, and innocent people get caught in the crossfire. 

The reality is that the worst bad guys in power are those who comprise the Deep State. The unelected agents, bureaucrats, operatives, and the elected legacy politicians who seem to have held office since I was a kid. The elections sometimes put a different mask on the bad guys, but they never change much-- and their agenda only grows more evil with time.

It's sad that statists of any kind have such power in the world. But that doesn't mean I have to bow to their demands or fall for their lies. Do not comply. Do not fawn. Do not assist in your own enslavement.

You have the fundamental human right to run your own life without asking permission from political criminals. Act like it.

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Thinking or just believing

Much of the wrongness in the world, including statism, is based on believing instead of thinking.

You’ve been told and "everybody knows"… something that's not true.

Another way to say it is Smarts vs. Emotion.

Just look around and you'll see it everywhere. 

I catch myself doing it, too.

My plan is to continually whittle away at this so that it gets to be less of what's in my mind over time.

I'm constantly pausing when I encounter, and I notice, things I "believe". Then I think about it. I'll check definitions of words to see if I'm thinking of a word wrong. I'll try to see what I may be missing. I'll check the logic of the belief and see if it adds up.  Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, I try to change what I believe so it aligns with what's real. This can be harder than you'd suppose.

This is how my views on many things have changed over the years. I "believe" less and I think more.

I've never experienced a case where this process falsified liberty in any way. Have you had the same experience, or a different one?

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What do most government functions have in common?

Most government functions shouldn’t be done at all. By anyone.

The few that remain should be done by other groups, entities, or individuals-- voluntarily, without theft or coercion.

If the function requires theft-funding ("taxation") it must die.
If a function can't inspire enough people to fund or do it on a volunteer basis, it must die.
If a function can't be done without relying on government, it must die.

Use the economic means, not the political means.

If you can't do something without initiating force or violating property rights, you have no right to do it. And others have the right to defend themselves from having it done to them.

If that eliminates the opportunity for you to do what you want to do, or to see done what you want done, that's too bad. Find another way or move on. No one has the right to archate- to govern. If you do what you have no right to do, you're the problem.

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Being fine with tyranny

If you’re not willing to defend yourself and your rights from government and its legislation, in whatever ethical way is necessary, you’re saying you’re fine with tyranny.

That's a valid choice. For many reasons. Just be honest about it, and don't criticize those who choose differently.

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Government-required evil

People commit evil because government requires it. I'm not talking about those who work directly for government-- which is obviously wrong.

Gun shops run background checks and keep records of every sale, not because it’s necessary, but because government bullies them into it. It will put them out of business by revoking their "license" and cage the employees and owners if they don't do wrong by following the government rules. So they do, and I can't really blame them too much.

So many people feel they have no choice but to do government's dirty work against their customers, friends, neighbors, and family members. The threat of not doing so is too great.

Look how many violate life, liberty, and property because if they don't comply, they'll face the same fate as gun store owners/employees:
Car manufacturers and dealers, doctors and pharmacists, retail stores, social media sites, carpenters and construction, etc.

Any business deal should be between you and the customer, not between you and the customer at the whim of the state which makes the seller steal money in the form of taxes and fees from the customer, and makes the customer accept inferior products and services because government says so.

And when a business feels it is necessary to sell out its customers to the state, in whatever way it happens, that's even worse. 

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Politics IS violence

Politics is violence. Worse, politics is usually aggression.

A blanket condemnation of political violence while still doing politics is a denial of reality. It's like calling for people to reject round circles or wet water. I understand why they have to say it, but really...

Politics is violence!

Its violence is usually camouflaged behind other words. Words like "democracy" or "laws". The threats are called something else, too. But politics is violence.

Yes, reject political violence by rejecting politics! Otherwise, you're just making ridiculous noise with your face or laying out a string of absurd words with your fingers.

Politics doesn't improve anyone's character. It doesn't make society better. It's a cancer.

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